COAM

A trip to the Open Air Museum last night with Rob Payne and Andy King, a bit windier, colder and clearer than ideal, but a few new species for everyone's year list (mine in bold):

Lunar Marbled Brown - 5

Hebrew Character - 11
Chestnut - 4
Eriocrania subpurpurella - 10+
Twin-spotted Quaker - 2
Common Quaker - 12
Brindled Pug - 3
Water Carpet - 4
Brimstone - 1
Clouded Drab - 4
Streamer - 1
Frosted Green - 11

Lesser Swallow Prominent - 1

Small Quaker - 2
Pine Beauty - 1
Early Thorn - 1
Brindled Beauty - 1
Nut-tree Tussock - 2
Agonopterix arenella - 1

A little bit of exploration also revealed the larva of Endothenia sp. in a teasel head

 and cases of Coleophora laricella on larch.

Dave Morris